Save the Whale Debate Moves Icelanders to Protest
In Bournemouth England Icelanders Magnus Skarphedvnsson Bjorn Hroarsson and Byrun Osk Jensdottir join a save the whale vigil. They traveled from Reykjavik to London spending 400 on air fare to protest government policy on whaling as the International Whaling Commission debates limits. The five day session features Japan Iceland Norway and South Korea arguing for continued research and hunt while the United States leads opposition. Japan’s Tatsuo Saito resigns saying the commission is too conservationist amid voting friction.
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Tatsuo Saito
Saito
Damaged Norwegian tanker towed to Bahrain for treatment
The Mia Margrethe, crippled in an Iranian gunboat attack, was towed to Bahrain en route to Dubai to transfer its 100000 tons of Kuwaiti crude oil. Stores and Egil, the First Engineer, suffered severe burns. five crewmen were slightly hurt. The Mia Margrethe and the Stena Concordia were attacked 55 minutes apart in the central Persian Gulf, with Iran threatening a response if the U S intervenes.
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Rescue by Sea King Clears Sailors After Hessen Sinking
A Sea King helicopter from HMS Ark Royal plucked a figure to safety as it hovered over the stricken West German trawler Hessen which sank in the Pentland Firth off northern Scotland Thursday night. Eighteen others including a child were saved by an Orkney lifeboat.
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Manila to Baguio crash kills 50 in Philippines
Investigators said both flight recorders from the Hawker Siddeley 748 were damaged beyond use after the Manila to Baguio City crash that killed 50 aboard. The cockpit voice recorder was destroyed on impact and the tail flight data recorder burned.
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Philippines
Enrique Santos
Baguio City
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